Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1887-06-01
NEWS IN BRIEF.


| coins is said to have been found by de-
tectlves in Pittsburgh.
Brick is being imported from Chi
eago to be used In new city building
in San Diego, California.
"A new absurdity Is to put a Grape
bow on the collar of pet dog whose
owner is in mourning.
"A season of German opera costs
every owner of box in the New York
Metropolitan fully $1,000.
The Emperor Of Brazil, who has
been quite i'll, Is reported out of danger
by the South American papers.
"A 'war" between sugar rellners
in California is reported to Re making
sugar dirt cheap" out that way.
"A petIifed human being IS said to
lave been discovered in a cave on Sand
mountain, Tennessee, few days ago.
AT the door Of PaFisian tobacco
| shop is the legend Gentlemen are re-
| quested not 10 smoke inside the shop. "
| The Granite Mountain Mine in
Montana has paid twenty-five dividends
IN fifteen months amounting to ST.
100000.
/ - ldiShd, Sduu L
often used to eXtinguish fires in the
absence of wate-, and it is said to be quite
effectual.
English is said 70 be the favorlte
of the new Turkish Minister to this
country, Malyiri Bey, who speaks SIX
Languages.
The Yield of one Dakota farm IS
given as $1,000 bushels of wheat,
5000 bushels Of barley AM II OOO
bushels Of oats.
The Chief Burgomaster Of Berlin
gets a salary equivalent to about $500
per annum of our money, exclusive Of
an allowance for rent.
II "A recent temperance lecturer pro-
pounded the theory that the bicycle is
a means Of grace, since none but 4
perfectly sober man can ride one sue
cessfully.
London had. on March 18th, exclu-
sive of lunatics IN asylums, patients Y,
smallpox and fever hospitals, ~. y - - !
grants, 103,Il4 paupers officially re-
ported in her care.
The first mass in the present limits
of the United States was said on the
spot recently occupied by the old Cath
edral at st. Augustine, Florida, which
was destroyed recently.
Measles broke out March % in the
Brooklyn \ ursery, and of the 80 child
ren in the institution only five escaped.
Seventeen little ones died and s. re-
manned on the sick list.
"A party of over 80 school girls at
tackled the Governor OF California at
Red Bluff, in that State, recently, and
succeeded in obtaining kiss apiece be
fore he could be rescued.
| Edward Gould, of Portland, at
more than four score, is still cashier
of the National Traders Bank uf that
city, position which he has held con-
tinuOusly for ffty-three years.
The next Legislature OF Rhode
Island will contain Frenchmap, wLO
was elected lately, an element Of men,
bership not heretofore known in the
Assembly of that State it is SAID.
"A sort of Free Masonry, it is said,
exists among the Chinese that finds
expression on goods sent TO their laud-
| dry. Certain signs mean bad pay"
''no good, F." heap slippery" etc.
"A postmaster at Cope, Indiana,
has resigned, but the rush for the sue
cessiOn is not likely to be great. His
salary amounted to cents less than
half dollar for the month Of March.
"A party of sportsmen from Ogdens-
burg, NV Jersey, had great success in
duck hunting recently, but it has since
turned out that most OF what thew
bagged were the tame ducks Of a gem
tleman.
"A thief stole the coat of Rev. D. b.
Perry, of Brooklyn, while the latter
was preaching, succeeding also ID car
ryiDg off the manuscript Of his sermon
on The Wages or Sin." which was in
a pocket Of the garment.
"A woman of Spartanburg, South
Carolina, while carrying an armload of
wood, was attacked recently by a rabld
dog, but, dropping Il portion of her
load, she turned the tables by beating
out the brains Of the dog with one of
her bIllets.
During the past winter Mrs. Mary
Miller, of HillsborOugh, New Hamp-
shire (where the season still lingers),
fed daily eight gray squirrels, which
came to her door from the woods every
morning aud departed after having had
their breakfast.
In San Francisco there are four
Journals regularly published in Chinese
characters, These appear weekly and
have 4 circulation of $500 copies.
1t requires four persons to run Chin
ese journal, an editor, sub-editOr,
Translator and printer.
Japan grows enormous quantities
of sorghum cane, and large quantities
OF granulated sugar have been made
from it. The product for one year was
estimated at 512 ,0OO. 600 pounds. The
principal crop of this country IS rice;
one-half the entire land under cultiva-
tiOn, 1t is said, being devoted to its
growth.
"A carpenter was blown from the
top Of a twenty-five foot ladder in
Orange, New Jersey. while he was
making repairs to window, but he
carried with him the sash which. act
ing as parachute, let him gently down
to the lawn uninju-ed.
"A prize of 500 having been offered
for the best design for a new silver
dollar, the Macon Telegraph hopes 10
secure it by this offer: ''On one side,
the rising sun, a eOrnucopia rampant,
and the legend, Honesty is the best
policy On the other in long primer,
"Turn the rascals out" Between the
two. one dollars worth of silver.
"A large number OF images of angels
and saints having been introduced into
the Cathedral Of st. Giles, ut Edin-
burgh, Scotland, a petition, signed by
500 residents Of the parish, was recently
Dresented to the Edinburgh Presby-
terry, asking that the Courts should take
steps to have these images removed,
''as enjoined by the Bible and laws Of
the national Church."
oil has been ''struek" in Egypt by
boring In the Jebel Zelt foil nountain),
on the shore OF the Red Sea, $50 miles
fran Suez. Petroleum has long been
supposed to exist in the country. for